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      <span>
      css Zen Garden
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      <span>
      The Beauty of <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</acronym> Design
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      <span>
      A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</acronym>-based 
      design. Select any style sheet from the list to load it into this page.
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      <span>
      Download the sample <a href="zengarden-sample.html" title="This page's source HTML code, not to be modified.">html file</a> 
      and <a href="zengarden-sample.css" title="This page's sample CSS, the file you may modify.">css file</a>
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    <div id="preamble">
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      The Road to Enlightenment
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      </h3>
      <p class="p1">
      <span>
      Littering a dark and dreary road lay the past relics of browser-specific tags, incompatible <acronym title="Document Object Model">DOM</acronym>s, 
      and broken <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</acronym> support.
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      Today, we must clear the mind of past practices. Web enlightenment has been achieved thanks to the tireless efforts of 
      folk like the <acronym title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym>, <acronym title="Web Standards Project">WaSP</acronym> 
      and the major browser creators.
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      <p class="p3">
      <span>
      The css Zen Garden invites you to relax and meditate on the important lessons of the masters. Begin to see with clarity. 
      Learn to use the (yet to be) time-honored techniques in new and invigorating fashion. Become one with the web.
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      So What is This About?
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      <p class="p1">
      <span>
      There is clearly a need for <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</acronym> to be taken seriously by graphic 
      artists. The Zen Garden aims to excite, inspire, and encourage participation. To begin, view some of the existing 
      designs in the list. Clicking on any one will load the style sheet into this very page. The code remains the same, the 
      only thing that has changed is the external .css file. Yes, really.
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      <span>
      <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</acronym> allows complete and total control over the style of a hypertext 
      document. The only way this can be illustrated in a way that gets people excited is by demonstrating what it can truly 
      be, once the reins are placed in the hands of those able to create beauty from structure. To date, most examples of neat 
      tricks and hacks have been demonstrated by structurists and coders. Designers have yet to make their mark. This needs to 
      change.
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      Participation
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      Graphic artists only please. You are modifying this page, so strong <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</acronym> 
      skills are necessary, but the example files are commented well enough that even <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</acronym> 
      novices can use them as starting points. Please see the <a href="http://www.mezzoblue.com/zengarden/resources/" title="A listing of CSS-related resources">
      <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</acronym> Resource Guide</a> for advanced tutorials and tips on working with <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</acronym>.
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      You may modify the style sheet in any way you wish, but not the <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym>. 
      This may seem daunting at first if you&#8217;ve never worked this way before, but follow the listed links to learn more, 
      and use the sample files as a guide.
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      Download the sample <a href="zengarden-sample.html" title="This page's source HTML code, not to be modified.">html file</a> 
      and <a href="zengarden-sample.css" title="This page's sample CSS, the file you may modify.">css file</a> to work on a 
      copy locally. Once you have completed your masterpiece (and please, don&#8217;t submit half-finished work) upload your .css 
      file to a web server under your control. <a href="http://www.mezzoblue.com/zengarden/submit/" title="Use the contact form to send us your CSS file">Send 
      us a link</a> to the file and if we choose to use it, we will spider the associated images. Final submissions will be 
      placed on our server.
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      Benefits
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      Why participate? For recognition, inspiration, and a resource we can all refer to when making the case for <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</acronym>-based 
      design. This is sorely needed, even today. More and more major sites are taking the leap, but not enough have. One day 
      this gallery will be a historical curiosity; that day is not today.
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      Requirements
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      We would like to see as much <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets, version 1">CSS1</acronym> as possible. <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets, version 2">CSS2</acronym> 
      should be limited to widely-supported elements only. The css Zen Garden is about functional, practical <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</acronym> 
      and not the latest bleeding-edge tricks viewable by 2% of the browsing public. The only real requirement we have is that 
      your <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</acronym> validates.
      </span>
      </p>
      <p class="p2">
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      Unfortunately, designing this way highlights the flaws in the various implementations of <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</acronym>. 
      Different browsers display differently, even completely valid <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</acronym> at 
      times, and this becomes maddening when a fix for one leads to breakage in another. View the <a href="http://www.mezzoblue.com/zengarden/resources/" title="A listing of CSS-related resources">Resources</a> 
      page for information on some of the fixes available. Full browser compliance is still sometimes a pipe dream, and we do 
      not expect you to come up with pixel-perfect code across every platform. But do test in as many as you can. If your 
      design doesn&#8217;t work in at least IE5+/Win and Mozilla (run by over 90% of the population), chances are we won&#8217;t 
      accept it.
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      <span>
      We ask that you submit original artwork. Please respect copyright laws. Please keep objectionable material to a minimum; 
      tasteful nudity is acceptable, outright pornography will be rejected.
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      <p class="p4">
      <span>
      This is a learning exercise as well as a demonstration. You retain full copyright on your graphics (with limited 
      exceptions, see <a href="http://www.mezzoblue.com/zengarden/submit/guidelines/">submission guidelines</a>), but we ask 
      you release your <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</acronym> under a Creative Commons license identical to the <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sa/1.0/" title="View the Zen Garden's license information.">one 
      on this site</a> so that others may learn from your work.
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            <a href="/" title="AccessKey: g" accesskey="g">Sample #7</a> by <a href="http://www.mezzoblue.com/" class="c">Dave Shea</a>&nbsp;
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            <a href="/" title="AccessKey: h" accesskey="h">Sample #8</a> by <a href="http://www.mezzoblue.com/" class="c">Dave Shea</a>&nbsp;
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